| Lakshmi Fjord |
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PhD |
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Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
1995 University Avenue, Suite 450
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States |
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lfjord@prev.org |
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| Research Interests: |
disabiity and health disparities; disabiity arts, Deaf theatre
disaster and culture
Alternative medicine: yoga therapy, homeopathy, naturopathy |
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Geographic
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North America, Scandinavia |
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ASL, French, Danish |
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Research
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Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship in Disability Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Prevention Research Center, Postdcotoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley |
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Applied
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Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation: women and reproductive health services and policies in the world's navies
women carpenters, injury, aging, and alcohol and drug use |
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Recent
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Fjord, Lakshmi (2007) Disasters, Race, and Disability: [Un]Seen Through the Political Lens on Katrina The Journal of Race and Policy, Spring/Summer 2007
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Fjord, Lakshmi (2000) Voices Offstage: How Vision Became a Symbol to Resist in an American Audiology Lab. Visual Anthropology Review, 15(2):121-137. |
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Fjord, Lakshmi (2000) Ethos and Embodiment: The Social and Emotional Development of Deaf Children. Copenhagen, Denmark: Scandinavian Audiology: Proceedings from 3rd International Congress of Paediatric Audiology. |
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Fjord, Lakshmi (1996) Images of Difference: Deaf and Hearing in the United States. Anthropology and Humanism 21(1):55-69.
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Work in Progress: |
The Mermaid's Tale: How Social Disability Shapes Diagnosis, Deaf Personhood, and Desires for Communication Technologies in the US, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Dissertation, under
revision for Gallaudet University Press.
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Alternative Medicine |
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Biomedicine |
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Child Health |
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Chronic Illness |
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Disability |
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Ethics |
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Ethnomedicine |
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Evidence-based Medicine |
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Food and Nutrition |
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Gender
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Global Health |
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Healing, Spiritual Healing |
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Health and Migration |
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Health and Technology |
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Health Care Delivery and
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Health Disparities |
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Health Professions |
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HIV/AIDS |
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Indigenous Health |
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Infectious Disease |
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Life Course |
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Mental Health |
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Pharmaceuticals |
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Policy |
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Prevention |
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Reproductive Health |
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Sexual health |
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Substance Use |
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Memberships in SMA Special
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Memberships in AAA Sections: |
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American Ethnological Society |
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Anthropology and
Environment Section |
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Archaeology Division |
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Association for Africanist Anthropology |
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Association for Feminist
Anthropology |
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Association for Political
and Legal Anthropology |
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Association of Black
Anthropologists |
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Association of Latina and
Latino Anthropologists |
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Association of Senior
Anthropologists |
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Biological Anthropology
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Central States
Anthropological Society |
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Council for Museum
Anthropology |
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Council on Anthropology
and Education |
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Council on Nutritional
Anthropology (See Society for the
Anthropology of Food and Nutrition below) |
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Culture and Agriculture |
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East Asian Studies in
Anthropology Section (See Society for
East Asian Anthropology below) |
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Evolutionary Anthropology
Society |
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General Anthropology
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Middle East Section |
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National Association for
the Practice of Anthropology |
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National Association of
Student Anthropologists |
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Society for Anthropology
in Community Colleges |
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Society for Cultural
Anthropology |
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Society for East Asian
Anthropology |
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Society for Humanistic
Anthropology |
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Society for Latin
American and Caribbean Anthropology |
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Society for Linguistic
Anthropology |
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Society for Medical
Anthropology |
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Society for Psychological
Anthropology |
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Society for the
Anthropology of Consciousness |
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Society for the
Anthropology of Europe |
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Society for the
Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
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Society for the
Anthropology of North America |
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Society for the
Anthropology of Religion |
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Society for the
Anthropology of Work |
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Society for Urban,
National and Transnational/Global Anthropology |
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Society for Visual
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Society of Lesbian and
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